Heavy rains and flooding have inflicted the coastal regions of Pakistan and India this week as Tropical Cyclone Two whorls in the northern Arabian Sea.

Tropical Depression Shanshan continues to bring heavy rain to areas of Japan.

Massive fires burn in the Northwest Territories of Canada. This imagery captured by JPSS spans a two week period.

A wildfire in Canada burns through the night as the aurora borealis dances overhead. This imagery was taken by NOAA-20 earlier this week when a G2 geomagnetic storm reached Earth.

Numerous fires and smoke are observed over northern Saskatchewan. Seen earlier this afternoon from NOAA-21, SNPP and NOAA-20 VIIRS at 375 meters.

Tropical Storm Yagi crosses the northern Philippines before continuing westward over the South China Sea.

Thick wildfire smoke swirls around a low over the Pacific Northwest.

Iceberg A23a somersaults in the Southern Ocean through the month of August.

The annual Burning Man event took place last week in the Black Rock Desert, located in Nevada. The lights that illuminated from the many people that gathered there could be seen from JPSS satellites.

Typhoon Yagi quickly strengthens into a very strong storm over the South China Sea. Yagi is expected to slowly approach the China-Vietnam border in the coming days.

Skies from the Pacific to the Atlantic are infiltrated by wildfire smoke. Smoke from fires on the US west coast gets caught up in a low circulating over the intermountain west, while wildfires in Canada see their smoke observed as far away as the Midwest and east coast.

Stunning imagery of Typhoon Yagi over the South China Sea.

View Burning Man from space. 🔥 NOAA's JPSS satellites capture the nighttime brightness of the event at Black Rock City, Nevada, from late August to early September 2024. This is compared to the usual night lights observed on August 4. Credit: CIRA/NOAA

Senator Hickenlooper's visit was a great opportunity for our research community to highlight the observing systems that we have deployed all over the world to better understand atmospheric science and improve forecasts.

Five tropical disturbances are spread out across the Atlantic Ocean basin. The area of low pressure in the Gulf of Mexico has been bringing constant showers and thunderstorms to the Texas and Louisiana coasts over the last several days.

Smoke from seasonal burning in Bolivia and Brazil gets trapped against the Andes mountains, leading to clear skies to the west of the peaks. This beautiful imagery was captured by NOAA-21.

Fascinating satellite imagery of bubbly, electric convection and a low-level swirl.

Gravity waves originating from storms over North Dakota ripple over the Intermountain West. This nighttime image was captured by the day/night band on NOAA-20.

In the Pacific Northwest, wildfires scorch lands and billow smoke into the atmosphere. In Oregon, the Rail Ridge Fire has grown to nearly 83,000 acres since it ignited on September 2nd.

Typhoon Yagi lashes China's Hainan Island and the Leizhou Peninsula. The storm is expected to continue westward and make landfall in northern Vietnam.